Over the past three years, I’ve been using most of the major off-market techniques.One standout method has always been pulling data and feeding it into a call center to generate off-market leads.

Only advice I can suggest is to continue to market future and guests to other channels such as a direct booking site, or the other housing platforms.In the beginnning, Airbnb and VRBO were just about the only place we got bookings, but now we get some from direct, booking.com, and a couple of other sites.Hope that helps.Mike

Rentals are a low cash flow / high CapEx business model.That being said, don't rely on your rentals for income to feed your family.

You don't need to spend endless money on the national courses which never give you a result and never teach you anything you can actually apply.As a general rule, if you find a class or group promoted in your social feeds, or on TV, etc., you want to stay away from those. 

Somalia has over 40 million livestock and almost zero feed pellet production.

It's always inspiring to see someone channel their competitive spirit into real estate.

Super helpful to poke around the Bigger Pockets channel. 

At first you step on your parthers feet, you get feed back, then eventually you've learned what the network will allow us REI SMSers...   

What people need to watch out for is newer syndicators with little experience trying to build teams and have to keep doing mediocre deals to feed their team to survive.

Right now I use Hospitable as my channel manager and Price labs for dynamic pricing.